Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:56:43 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mptutil(8) causes VMware VM to crash hard Message-ID: <hl3mmi$t2l$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <4B7484D8.2080406@greatbaysoftware.com>
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On 02/11/10 23:29, Charles Owens wrote: > Hello, > > We've been doing some work with mpt(4) and mptutil(8). We noticed that > in VMware (both Workstation and ESX) the SCSI controller is showing up > as mpt0... so it seemed only natural to probe it with mptutil. For Which is probably useless as you can't exactly diagnose a virtual drive :) > about 1 second, it looks ok (see below)... but what happened, in fact, > is that the VM went down pretty much instantly (nothing on console... no > panic, nothing). For what it's worth this is the usual response of VMWare to any situation it can't handle - instant VM kill. To its credit, it doesn't appear to affect the host / hypervisor itself. > Behavior confirmed in both ESX and Workstation. Any help with this > would be appreciated. I'd be glad to test patches or whatever. What are you expecting to do with mptutil? Hardware diagnostics itself should be done on the VMWare host side.home | help
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